Pascasia
Pascasia. Svetvinčenat. Every mention of this name in the archive — 28 across 7 pages.
Named in household h107 on the households list, at Svetvinčenat, as the wife of Giacomo de Franceschi, a De Franceschi, and the mother of Casparus de Franceschi; Martina Antonia de Franceschi; Antonia de Franceschi; Victoria de Franceschi. Evidence class: read — from registers this archive has read. No birth, death or occupation is printed for this person, so none is claimed. Not of the name's surname — kept because the person married into it; the household list gives the couple and nothing about their origin. Recorded by forename only — no surname is printed, so this is a name and a role and cannot be told apart from another woman of the same forename by anything on the page.
Two children here carry one name — a n t o n i a. In these parishes that is usually not an error: a child who died was very often replaced by a later child given the same name. It is also exactly how an index invents one person out of two, so both are drawn.
8 of the 8 relationships drawn above are written in a register this archive has read with its own eyes.
Joined on a name alone. One household above could not be date-checked, because this archive holds no year for the person or for the household. Treat that link as a lead.
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…and died, that Francisca followed from 1743, and that «the two women do not overlap». They overlap, and the proof was already in this archive when the claim was written. households.json has carried h107 Giacomo de Franceschi × Pascasia, four children 1750–1759, read off the same volume at images 155, 163, 169 and 179, since long before this session opened the film. Francisca is Jacobo's wife in 1743 and twice in 1752. Pascasia is bearing his children from 1750. One man cannot have…
…has carried h107 Giacomo de Franceschi × Pascasia, four children 1750–1759, read off the same volume at images 155, 163, 169 and 179, since long before this session opened the film. Francisca is Jacobo's wife in 1743 and twice in 1752. Pascasia is bearing his children from 1750. One man cannot have both, so the parish holds at least two Giacomos — and with h109 Giacomo × Nicolina Teserati (1773–1778) and a «Domenico Gasparo, son of Giacomo» baptised in 1732, it holds forty-six years of the…
…filius legitimus Jacobi Defranceschi, et Francisca ejus legitimæ uxoris» — 1 June 1743, film 005497885 image 134, read on the plate 23 September 2026. Godfather given as «D.nus Dominicus Xaverii Bosponi». The word is Pascasia. Re-read at 8× on 28 September and set beside the same clerk's own hand, twice.· Against his «Franciscus». Carta 119v of the same opening carries «Franciscus filius legitimus Caroli Varnier», 8 October 1743. The clerk's F is a crossed…
…bowl closing into a descender and runs a-s-c into a broad round vowel. «Franciscus» has no round vowel in its middle at all. The two words share only their last two letters, which is how the misreading happened.· Against the register's own «Pascasia». Image 143, 31 March 1746: «Martina Antonia filia legitima Jacobi Defranceschi, et Pascasia ejus legitima uxoris» — dark ink, a full parental entry, and a name this archive already reads correctly. Set beside image 134 at the same…
…vowel in its middle at all. The two words share only their last two letters, which is how the misreading happened.· Against the register's own «Pascasia». Image 143, 31 March 1746: «Martina Antonia filia legitima Jacobi Defranceschi, et Pascasia ejus legitima uxoris» — dark ink, a full parental entry, and a name this archive already reads correctly. Set beside image 134 at the same magnification, the two words are the same word, stroke for stroke. So Casparus is Pascasia's son, and…
…et Pascasia ejus legitima uxoris» — dark ink, a full parental entry, and a name this archive already reads correctly. Set beside image 134 at the same magnification, the two words are the same word, stroke for stroke. So Casparus is Pascasia's son, and h107 Jacobo × Pascasia begins in 1743 — not 1746, and not the 1750 this archive first had. What it does to the two-men case: it takes 1743 away from it. The page argued that «Francisca Marcario brackets Pascasia by five months on one…
…uxoris» — dark ink, a full parental entry, and a name this archive already reads correctly. Set beside image 134 at the same magnification, the two words are the same word, stroke for stroke. So Casparus is Pascasia's son, and h107 Jacobo × Pascasia begins in 1743 — not 1746, and not the 1750 this archive first had. What it does to the two-men case: it takes 1743 away from it. The page argued that «Francisca Marcario brackets Pascasia by five months on one side and a week on the other» and…
…So Casparus is Pascasia's son, and h107 Jacobo × Pascasia begins in 1743 — not 1746, and not the 1750 this archive first had. What it does to the two-men case: it takes 1743 away from it. The page argued that «Francisca Marcario brackets Pascasia by five months on one side and a week on the other» and that «no widower remarries and is widowed again inside eight days». With 1 June reading Pascasia there is one wife in 1743, not two — Pascasia in a full baptism on 1 June and as godmother on…
…to the two-men case: it takes 1743 away from it. The page argued that «Francisca Marcario brackets Pascasia by five months on one side and a week on the other» and that «no widower remarries and is widowed again inside eight days». With 1 June reading Pascasia there is one wife in 1743, not two — Pascasia in a full baptism on 1 June and as godmother on 24 November — and then a single «Mar-/:cario uxor Jacobi Defranceschi» on 1 December. One godparent line, standing alone. That is precisely…
…The page argued that «Francisca Marcario brackets Pascasia by five months on one side and a week on the other» and that «no widower remarries and is widowed again inside eight days». With 1 June reading Pascasia there is one wife in 1743, not two — Pascasia in a full baptism on 1 June and as godmother on 24 November — and then a single «Mar-/:cario uxor Jacobi Defranceschi» on 1 December. One godparent line, standing alone. That is precisely the evidence this archive has twice convicted:…
…in a full baptism on 1 June and as godmother on 24 November — and then a single «Mar-/:cario uxor Jacobi Defranceschi» on 1 December. One godparent line, standing alone. That is precisely the evidence this archive has twice convicted: «Pascasia uxor Caspari Defranceschi», 16 December 1751 and 3 February 1752, both provably wrong about the husband. The two-men case is not withdrawn. It is moved to where it was always strongest and where nothing has been re-read: 1752–53 —…
…about the husband. The two-men case is not withdrawn. It is moved to where it was always strongest and where nothing has been re-read: 1752–53 — «Francisca uxor Jacobi Defranceschi» on 6 February 1753 against «Jacobus Defranceschi, et Pascasia ejus uxor» in one joint phrase on 29 April 1753, ten weeks apart, with Pascasia bearing his children in 1746, 1747 and 1750. (inf, and unchanged in strength — but it no longer draws on 1743, and the page said 1743 was what settled it.) A…
…always strongest and where nothing has been re-read: 1752–53 — «Francisca uxor Jacobi Defranceschi» on 6 February 1753 against «Jacobus Defranceschi, et Pascasia ejus uxor» in one joint phrase on 29 April 1753, ten weeks apart, with Pascasia bearing his children in 1746, 1747 and 1750. (inf, and unchanged in strength — but it no longer draws on 1743, and the page said 1743 was what settled it.) A second misreading in the same entry, caught the same way. The godfather is not «Dominicus…
…full ascender loop, read at 5× on image 143 where the ink is dark. Both misreadings are the same mistake, and it is not bad eyesight. «Francisca» was already in mind — she is Matteo's wife, attested on this film in 1741, 1742 and 1752. «Pascasia» was not yet known to the archive in 1743; it first meets her in 1746. The clerk wrote an unfamiliar name and the reader supplied a familiar one. The register was never ambiguous. It was read against what was expected. What caught it was refusing…
…transcription settled anything on its own. What settled it was finding the same clerk writing the same two candidate names elsewhere in the same volume and putting the three side by side at one magnification — his «Franciscus» on the facing leaf, his «Pascasia» nine images on. A hand is only legible against itself. The same session withdrew two of its own readings before publishing them by exactly this test — «Bascovicia» on image 135, twice — which is the method working in the direction it is supposed…
…one child: Casparus. And in its own words: «five months after Francisca bore Casparus», and «the parish held two contemporary Jacobos, and this household is the Marcario one». Casparus's mother was corrected from Francisca to Pascasia on 28 September 2026 — and this file did not hear about it for five days. The correction was written up properly: on /corrections/, on the child's page, on his father's…
…1709–1764) and 005497886 (marriages from 1762): 158 people, nine households, 1628 to 1791, and the fifteen years 1738–1752 that no index reaches walked frame by frame. Four households baptising at once in the 1740s — Jacobo × Pascasia, Matteo × Francisca, Pietro × Jacoba, Vittorio × Dominica…
…baptising six weeks apart, both styled Maestro, and the godparents around them are the Carnian colony. Artisan, and rising Vittorio 1674 Eight years on the same register calls one of them «il Signor» — the same family, a different word Pascasia 1737–1759 Four households of the name baptising at the castle at once — Jacobo × Pascasia, Matteo × Francisca, Pietro × Jacoba and Vittorio × Dominica, with Gasparo × Maria beside them. Jacobo × Pascasia, Matteo × Francisca, Pietro × Jacoba, Vittorio…
The Lines
…in the Istrian sweep, read opening by opening rather than searched — the first nineteen off DGS 005497884 to 1707, then on into Births 1709–1764 and Births 1764–1791. Six generations stand in it: Elena in 1628, Nadal and Batta in 1666, Vittorio in 1674, Pascasia 1737–1759, Elena and Fusca 1766–1773, and a last leaf in 1791. A castle-parish family that arrives, lasts six generations, and stops. /lines/svetread liznjan Out of southern Istria — origin unknown…
…1709–1764 is simply blank for this surname, and the only way through is to open every frame. Film 005497885, images 115–162. It produced a parish, not a list. Four households of the name baptising at the castle at once — Jacobo × Pascasia, Matteo × Francisca, Pietro × Jacoba, Vittorio × Dominica — with Gasparo × Maria beside them, and the children running 1737 to 1759. None of them is in any index anywhere. The frames also killed five lookalikes — Dassanich,…
…sweep's discipline is that the spread finds and the magnification decides. One word, and a household moved three years The mother of Casparus, baptised 1 June 1743, was read as «Francisca» and published. She is Pascasia. What settled it was not magnification. Going from 2.4× to 8× settled nothing — at every scale the word was a plausible squiggle and the reader kept supplying the name already in mind. What settled it was finding the same clerk writing both…
…word was a plausible squiggle and the reader kept supplying the name already in mind. What settled it was finding the same clerk writing both candidate names elsewhere in the same volume: his «Franciscus» on the facing leaf, eight weeks later, and his «Pascasia» nine images on, in an entry this archive had already transcribed correctly. Set at one magnification, the disputed word is the second stroke for stroke. It moved the child from one household to another — h113 to h107 — and it took 1743 away…
…twenty-six appearances of the name. Three of them are marriages of the name, two are widows remarrying, the rest are witnessings.· 22 Oct 1765 — «Domenico Calluzzi q.m Pietro … con Pasqua Ved.a q.m Giacomo de Franceschi in 2di uoti». Pascasia a widow, and the first dated death of any Jacobo at this castle.· 9 Feb 1766 — «Con Elena figlia di q.m Mattio de Franceschi», marrying Mattio Santalezza of the Albona territory, twelve years resident, admitted on a letter of credit.·…
…005497886, frame 82, read at 2.1×. (doc.) She is Antonia, baptised 20 October 1747, daughter of Jacobo and Pascasia — thirty-one, and her father already dead, which agrees with her mother remarrying as a widow in 1765. A Defranceschi stood witness at her wedding: «Vitorio», though the act does…
…figlia del q. Antonio, ambi di questa Parrochia» — film 005497886, frame 96. (doc.) Until today this line knew Jacobo's household only through its women — Antonia marrying in 1779, and Pascasia widowed and remarrying in 1765. Zuanne is the first son of it the marriage book names. ⚠ Not assigned to a…
…girl baptised 20 October 1747 rested on the patronymic. Five years on the same register names her birth family outright. ⚠ A thread left open, not tied. The bride of 1784 is «Angiola relitta q. Domenico Galluzzi» — and Antonia's own mother Pascasia had remarried a Calluzzi. One letter, one clerk's hand. This page records the coincidence and refuses the kinship. And the Carnian road is now countable. Reading forward frame by frame, this one small castle marries five people out of…
Method
…of any Antonio in it, which is a real result and a wide one: it moves the question from where in this volume to was he baptised in this parish at all. The same frames handed over a different household almost complete. Giacomo de Franceschi and Pascasia turn up as parents in 1750, 1753, 1756 and 1759 — four children, three forenames, one of them lost to smeared ink. None of that was being looked for. A page-by-page read collects everything on the page, and the entries you were not hunting are worth…
Worklist
…The running count was measuring the wrong thing, and said «twenty-eight frames to go» about a stretch that was already mined. Second, what verification found on the very first frame of it. Image 134, carta 119 — the mother of Casparus is Pascasia, not Francisca, and the godfather is Francesco Saverio Profumo, chancellor of the parish, not «Dominicus Xaverii Bosponi». Two words in one entry, both wrong, both published for five days. It matters beyond one child: the 1743 line was…
A dossier is every mention of a name anywhere in this archive's data, gathered automatically and linked back to the page it appears on, with what the archive knows about the person set out at the top. Identity here is by NAME, not by resolved individual: where two people share a name they share a dossier, and the archive says so rather than guessing. Rebuilt from the roster, so every person the archive can name has a page — including the ones read straight off a register that no index anywhere contains.